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Chapter 1 Big Picture And Principles Of The Small World |
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1.1 Understanding The Atom: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit |
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1.2 Nanotechnology Starts With A Dare: Feynman's Big Little Challenges |
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1.3 Why One-Billionth Of A Meter Is A Big Deal |
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1.4 Thinking It Through: The Broad Implications Of Nanotechnology |
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1.4.2 Environmental Impact: Risks To Ecosystems And Human Health |
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1.5 The Business Of Nanotech: Plenty Of Room At The Bottom Line Too |
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Recommendations For Further Reading |
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Chapter 2 Introduction To Miniaturization |
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2.1 Background: The Smaller, The Better |
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2.2.1 The Elephant And The Flea |
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2.2.2 Scaling In Mechanics |
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2.2.3 Scaling In Electricity And Electromagnetism |
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2.2.5 Scaling In Heat Transfer |
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2.3 Accuracy Of The Scaling Laws |
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Recommendations For Further Reading |
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Chapter 3 Introduction To Nanoscale Physics |
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3.1 Background: Newton Never Saw A Nanotube |
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3.2 One Hundred Hours And Eight Minutes Of Nanoscale Physics |
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3.3 The Basics Of Quantum Mechanics |
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3.3.1 Atomic Orbitals (Not Orbits) |
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3.3.2.1 How EM Waves Are Made |
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3.3.3 The Quantization Of Energy |
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3.3.4 Atomic Spectra And Discreteness |
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3.3.5 The Photoelectric Effect |
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3.3.6 Wave-Particle Duality: The Double-Slit Experiment |
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3.3.7 The Uncertainty Principle |
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Recommendations For Further Reading |
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Chapter 4 Nanornaterials |
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4.1 Background: Matter Matters |
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4.2 Bonding Atoms To Make Molecules And Solids |
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4.2.4 Walking Through Waals: Van Der Waals Forces |
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4.2.4.3 Van Der Waals Force Versus Gravity |
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4.4 Structures Small Enough To Be Different (And Useful) |
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4.4.1.1 Colloidal Particles |
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4.4.3 Films, Layers, And Coatings |
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4.4.5 Small-Grained Materials |
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4.4.6.1 Carbon Fullerenes And Nanotubes |
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117 | (4) |
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Recommendations For Further Reading |
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Chapter 5 Nanomechanics |
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5.1 Background: The Universe Mechanism |
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5.1.1 Nanomechanics: Which Motions And Forces Make The Cut? |
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5.2 A High-Speed Review Of Motion: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, And Force |
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5.3 Nanomechanical Oscillators: A Tale Of Beams And Atoms |
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5.3.1.2 Free Oscillation From The Perspective Of Energy (And Probability) |
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5.3.1.3 Forced Oscillation |
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5.3.2.1 Lennard-Jones Interaction: How An Atomic Bond Is Like A Spring |
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5.3.2.2 Quantum Mechanics Of Oscillating Atoms |
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5.3.2.3 Schrodinger Equation And Correspondence Principle |
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5.3.3 Nanomechanical Oscillator Applications |
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5.3.3.1 Nanomechanical Memory Elements |
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5.3.3.2 Nanomechanical Mass Sensors: Detecting Low Concentrations |
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5.4.1 Scanning Probe Microscopes |
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5.4.1.1 Pushing Atoms Around With The Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
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5.4.1.2 Skimming Across Atoms With The Atomic Force Microscope |
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5.4.1.3 Pulling Atoms Apart With The AFM |
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5.4.1.4 Rubbing And Mashing Atoms With The AFM |
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5.4.2 Mechanical Chemistry: Detecting Molecules With Bending Beams |
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Chapter 6 Nanoelectronics |
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6.1 Background: The Problem (Opportunity) |
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6.2 Electron Energy Bands |
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6.3 Electrons In Solids: Conductors, Insulators, And Semiconductors |
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6.5 Density Of States For Solids |
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6.5.1 Electron Density In A Conductor |
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6.6 Turn Down The Volume! (How To Make A Solid Act More Like An Atom) |
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6.7.1.1 Uses For Quantum Structures |
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6.7.2 How Small Is Small Enough For Confinement? |
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6.7.2.1 Conductors: The Metal-To-Insulator Transition |
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6.7.2.2 Semiconductors: Confining Excitons |
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6.7.3 Band Gap Of Nanomaterials |
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6.9 Single Electron Phenomena |
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6.9.1 Two Rules For Keeping The Quantum In Quantum Dot |
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6.9.1.1 Rule 1: The Coulomb Blockade |
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6.9.1.2 Rule 2: Overcoming Uncertainty |
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6.9.2 Single-Electron Transistor |
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6.10 Molecular Electronics |
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6.10.1 Molecular Switches And Memory Storage |
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Chapter 7 Nanoscale Heat Transfer |
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7.1 Background: Hot Topic |
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7.2 All Heat Is Nanoscale Heat |
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7.2.1 Boltzmann's Constant |
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7.3.1 Thermal Conductivity Of Nanoscale Structures |
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7.3.1.1 Mean Free Path And Scattering Of Heat Carriers |
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7.3.1.2 Thermoelectrics: Better Energy Conversion With Nanostructures |
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7.3.1.3 Quantum Of Thermal Conduction |
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7.5.1 Increased Radiation Heat Transfer: Mind The Gap! |
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Recommendations For Further Reading |
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254 | (1) |
Chapter 8 Nanophotonics |
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8.1 Background: The Lycurgus Cup And The Birth Of The Photon |
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8.2 Photonic Properties Of Nanomaterials |
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8.2.4.1 Permittivity And The Free Electron Plasma |
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8.2.4.2 The Extinction Coefficient Of Metal Particles |
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8.2.4.3 Colors And Uses Of Gold And Silver Particles |
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8.2.5.1 Tuning The Band Gap Of Nanoscale Semiconductors |
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8.2.5.2 The Colors And Uses Of Quantum Dots |
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8.2.5.3 Lasers Based On Quantum Confinement |
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8.3.1 The Limits Of Light: Conventional Optics |
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8.3.2 Near-Field Optical Microscopes |
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8.5 Photonic Crystals: A Band Gap For Photons |
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282 | (1) |
Chapter 9 Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics |
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9.1 Background: Becoming Fluent In Fluids |
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9.1.1 Treating A Fluid The Way It Should Be Treated: The Concept Of A Continuum |
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9.1.1.1 Fluid Motion, Continuum Style: The Navier-Stokes Equations |
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9.1.1.2 Fluid Motion: Molecular Dynamics Style |
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9.2 Fluids At The Nanoscale: Major Concepts |
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9.2.1 Swimming In Molasses: Life At Low Reynolds Numbers |
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9.2.2 Surface Charges And The Electrical Double Layer |
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9.2.2.1 Surface Charges At Interfaces |
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9.2.2.2 Gouy-Chapman-Stern Model And Electrical Double Layer |
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9.2.2.3 Electrokinetic Phenomena |
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9.2.3 Small Particles In Small Flows: Molecular Diffusion |
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9.3 How Fluids Flow At The Nanoscale |
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9.3.1 Pressure-Driven Flow |
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9.3.2 Gravity-Driven Flow |
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9.3.4 Superposition Of Flows |
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9.3.5 Ions And Macromolecules Moving Through A Channel |
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9.3.5.1 Stokes Flow Around A Particle |
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9.3.5.2 The Convection-Difrusion-Electromigration Equation: Nanochannel Electrophoresis |
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9.3.5.3 Macromolecules In A Nanofluidic Channel |
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9.4 Applications Of Nanofluidics |
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9.4.1 Analysis Of Biomolecules: An End To Painful Doctor Visits? |
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9.4.2 Electroosmotic Pumps: Cooling Off Computer Chips |
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330 | (3) |
Chapter 10 Nanobiotechnology |
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10.1 Background: Our World In A Cell |
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333 | (2) |
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10.2 Introduction: How Biology "Feels" At The Nanometer Scale |
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10.2.1 Biological Shapes At The Nanoscale: Carbon And Water Are The Essential Tools |
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10.2.2 Inertia And Gravity Are Insignificant: The Swimming Bacterium |
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336 | (2) |
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10.2.3 Random Thermal Motion |
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10.3 The Machinery Of The Cell |
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10.3.1 Sugars Are Used For Energy (But Also Structure) |
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10.3.2 Fatty Acids Are Used For Structure (But Also Energy) |
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10.3.3 Nucleotides Are Used To Store Information And Carry Chemical Energy |
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10.3.3.1 Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
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10.3.3.2 Adenosine Triphosphate |
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10.3.4 Amino Acids Are Used To Make Proteins |
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10.4 Applications Of Nanobiotechnology |
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10.4.1 Biomimetic Nanostructures |
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359 | (1) |
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363 | (2) |
Chapter 11 Nanomedicine |
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11.1 What Is Nanomedicine? |
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365 | (1) |
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11.2 Medical Nanoparticles |
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366 | (7) |
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367 | (2) |
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11.2.2 Lipid-Based Nanoparticles |
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369 | (2) |
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11.2.3 Polymer-Based Nanoparticles And Polymer Therapeutics |
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371 | (1) |
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11.2.4 Nanoparticles For Drug Delivery |
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11.3 Nanomedicine And Cancer |
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373 | (2) |
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11.4 Biomimicry In Nanomedicine |
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375 | (4) |
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11.5 Commercial Exploration |
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Glossary |
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